Snowball
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From a sleeve that belligerently refused to offer prospective purchasers anything other than a 10” slab of pure colour (Pantone 259) to final track Letting Go’s almost-out-of-earshot vocal, Snowball - the last thing The Field Mice recorded as a duo of Bobby Wratten and Michael Hiscock, and the band's first non-7" release for Sarah Records - confirmed the band as one that would refuse to conform to anyone’s expectations, with the gentle understated lyricism of debut EP Emma’s House and guitar-storm sonic assault of follow-up Sensitive now making way for the skeletal dance rhythms of Let’s Kiss And Make Up, later to be covered by St. Etienne. Elsewhere, Couldn’t Feel Safer was a warm and tender love song on themes to which Bobby would return on next single If You Need Someone, and This Love Is Not Wrong a buzzing up-tempo pop song with unconventional gender politics; White, meanwhile, simply deployed frazzled waves of metallic guitar to quietly devastating effect.
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